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Friday, May 5, 2017

The Art Gallery: 2014 Historia Sketches Of History Buddha

This month’s Art Gallery display comes from the comic
artist Lee Bradley, a British illustrator who has worked on comic books like
Spider-man, Transformers, TMNT, Star Wars and Mars Attacks and is currently
doing some side work for Marvel on their “Avengers: Age of Ultron” card set.

The set is the 2014 Historia Sketches of History, a complete sketch card set
that includes sketches of famous people like Mark Twain, King Henry VIII and
various Presidents. The company has seemed to have disappeared and their web
site is parked (meaning it is paid up but shut down by the company). I wrote this post in 2015, yes some posts have been waiting patiently for a long time for me to post, but the company is definitely gone now and their web site is no where to be found and I can only find one sketch card that sold this year and that was in February.

I love the color and detail that Bradley used creating
the Buddha card with the Dharma wheel on his hand, third eye and even the manji
on his chest adds to the overall beauty. The seller had post two dozen cards
sketch cards from the 2014 Historia Sketches of History set and 23 of them
sold. This cost me $5.75 shipped, which was about the middle of the price range
of all of the cards that sold.

About Me

I started collecting as a kid but by the time I hit my teens my interests were elsewhere. I returned to the hobby in 1992, just in time to see the junk wax era go in to full swing. My collecting interests have changed over the past 25 years and I prefer to focus on just a couple of players.

My collection is very specific now because I want to keep it controlled and organized, I now focus mainly on my Ken Griffey Jr. & Jay Buhner collections.